DEA Spy Cameras In Vacuum Cleaners: Surveillance State

[Swordsmyth]

According to the website USAspending.gov, the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) awarded a contract to an American defense company to build a vacuum cleaner for surveillance purposes.
A California-based company called Special Services Group, LLC. received a $42,595 contract on November 28 to manufacture a "custom Shop Vac concealment with Canon M50B.” The program completion time is one month, the DEA expects delivery of the spy vacuum on January 01.

Canon describes the high-sensitivity VB-M50B Network Camera as a "PTZ [Pan-Tilt-Zoom] network camera” that “captures video with remarkable color and clarity, even in very low-light environments.”

Depending on the retailer, the camera sells for $3,000 to $3,500; the contract summary specifies the spy vacuum is being funded by the DEA’s Office of Investigative Technology, as Quartz first reported this story on December 06.

The company behind the spy vacuum: Special Services Group “is a leading supplier of technical solutions for law enforcement, military and government agencies in the United States of America,” its website says. “Due to the critical missions of our customers, we have chosen not to place our product information on our website. Please use the contact section of our site to request more information.”
So, what did social media have to say about spy vacuums?

Over $40,000 for a $200 shop vac and $3400 camera. I need to get into government contracting.
— Michael Hodapp (@michaelhodapp_) December 7, 2018

There IS no group of more corrupt, self serving, life-ruining, constitutionally eroding, mission creeping, authority abusing budgetary black-holes in all organizations attached to to the US gov.
Blackwater went to THEM for tips, no doubt.
— Dont Fear the Repair (@DontFearRepair) December 7, 2018

Yeah, they hide cameras in everything except their budget audits, operations floor, or oversight inquests.
Y'know, anywhere they'd risk facing indictments for all the shady $#@! they've been neck deep in since '83.
— Dont Fear the Repair (@DontFearRepair) December 7, 2018

So, am I supposed to feel outraged about this....or something?
— ViViDiViNE1 (@ViViDiViNE1) December 7, 2018

Last month, new government procurement data also showed how the DEA purchased an undisclosed number of secret surveillance cameras that are being disguised as streetlights.

Again, Quartz first reported this dystopian development of federal authorities stocking up on “covert systems" in November. The report showed how the DEA paid a Houston, Texas company called Cowboy Streetlight Concealments LLC. approximately $22,000 since June for “video recording and reproducing equipment.”

It is not just streetlights and vacuum cleaners the federal government wants to mount covert surveillance cameras on, it seems cameras inside traffic barrels could be heading onto America's highways in the not too distant future.

And as Quartz reported in October, the DEA operates a complex network of digital speed-display road signs that covertly scan license plates.

More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...eillance-state

[DamianTV]

What else could they be planning but TOTAL CONTROL of your LIFE? Why else would they need all these cameras? They certainly dont do jack $#@! when a murder is recorded by 500 cameras, and not a cop around has access to any of them. No, they are there to protect THE ELITE from YOU. Other than that, they dont give a $#@! about you.

[Occam's Banana]

You missed a spot ...

[acptulsa]

I always said the DEA sucks. Now there's proof.

[luctor-et-emergo]

1 piece for $49,595 ? Sounds about right.

Holy $#@!, I'm in the wrong line of work!

[Dr.3D]

So how do they get the drug people to use that particular vacuum cleaner?

Can't just put it in the store and hope the right people buy it.

[acptulsa]

So how do they get the drug people to use that particular vacuum cleaner?

Can't just put it in the store and hope the right people buy it.

Who else is likely to pay $42,595 for a vacuum?

[Dr.3D]

Who else is likely to pay $42,595 for a vacuum?

The DEA?

[Swordsmyth]

So how do they get the drug people to use that particular vacuum cleaner?

Can't just put it in the store and hope the right people buy it.

I assume that they will break and enter into the suspects home and swap it for a regular vacuum.

[Dr.3D]

I assume that they will break and enter into the suspects home and swap it for a regular vacuum.

So those in the know, get a free camera. LOL

[acptulsa]

I assume that they will break and enter into the suspects home and swap it for a regular vacuum.

Because the Hoover crawling out of the closet and transforming itself into a big, ugly shop vac isn't suspicious at all.

[Swordsmyth]

So those in the know, get a free camera. LOL

Good thinking.

[Swordsmyth]

Because the Hoover crawling out of the closet and transforming itself into a big, ugly shop vac isn't suspicious at all.

Perhaps they have suspects in mind that have a shop vac.